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How to pitch me: 5 investors discuss what they’re looking for in April 2023

TechCrunch

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are not yet ready to pitch an investor. Thanks very much to everyone who took the time to respond!

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Justworks’ Series B pitch deck may be the most wonderfully simple deck I’ve ever seen

TechCrunch

He’ll create a framework that not only answers your specific question, but can prove to be a model that will answer future questions of the same type. Harris took a seat on the board. They also gave live feedback on pitch decks submitted by the audience in the Pitch Deck Teardown. (If Pitch deck teardown — 33:00.

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Here is How to Make Sense of Conflicting Startup Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. On investment strategies I have “ Deflationary Economics ” 6. For example: 1. Triangulate.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Find your valuation, international visas, hiring for growth

TechCrunch

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it. Pipeline prioritization framework Top-down or bottom-up? key in vivo data results). substantial real estate lease agreements).

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

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Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Startups pitching on the main stage.